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- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsTôma IkutaYuriko YoshitakaSôsuke TakaokaIt chronicles the love relationship between a boy called Motoharu Yano and a girl called Nanami Takahashi, starting from their teenage years and continuing during their early twenties.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsDaijirô HaradaNobuko OtowaKeiko ToriiAfter leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTomokazu MiuraBengalAtsuko SudôA story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsMisako RenbutsuNaoyuki MoritaTakuro AtsukiA Japanese boy and girl meet again at 15 at school after many years apart. They magically switch bodies. They are forced to switch lives as well.
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsMirei KiritaniFumika BabaShô KiyoharaA young woman with a big ego plots political revenge after she is duped by a man with an even bigger ego.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsTakumi KitamuraMei NaganoKyoko HasegawaTakuya Okada is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase in the hospital. Mamizu suffers from the mysterious ailment "Luminescence disease." People who have the disease show a faint sparkle under the moonlight and the sparkle gets brighter as their death gets closer. Mamizu is not allowed out of the hospital and she will not live long enough to become an adult. Takuya offers to help her carry out her wishes before she passes away. He also tells her how he feels about her, but Mamizu's death is approaching.
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsJôji AbeKazuyuki AijimaDuncanSayaka works as a property agent. One day after work, she finds a man, named Itsuki, collapsed outside her house. She takes him in and they start to live together. Itsuki teaches her about cooking and plants, but holds many secrets.
- DirectorYûichi SatôStarsTao TsuchiyaKyôko YoshineTadanobu AsanoAn ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKei SatôDo-yun YuFumio WatanabeA Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTakehiro MurataSaki TerashimaMiyoko AkazaFour people are murdered in an apartment block, but none of them seem connected.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsYumi AdachiKazunari AizawaAkaneA former hospital director runs an antiques shop in Ashibetsu with her family.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsHinako SakuraiRyô YoshizawaRei DanTwo sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsElaiza IkedaMasaki NakaoMinori HagiwaraKishimoto An is a high school student who loves Japanese archery, which is also known as Kyudo. She has been practicing since her beginning at junior high school and is quite good. Time has come to graduate however and the school club needs a new president. Enter Mikami Yota who is relatively lacklustre and does not have the same level of enthusiasm for the sport. He is a raw talent however. Also raw is his love for the pretty An.
- DirectorEisuke NaitôStarsAki MiyataKaori KobayashiTakara HiromuThe film follows a group of five high school girls led by a psychopath who decide to make their teacher have a miscarriage after hearing the news of her pregnancy.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsMiki AkiyamaUrara AwataHitoshi KajikiRyoko and her husband are a Tokyo couple in a loveless marriage that is on the verge of being turned upside down. Ryoko has developed a deep resentment after years of her husband's selfish behavior and is desperate for a way out. She begins to harbor deadly designs against him. On this particular day, Ryoko has a sudden and fiery love affair with Satoru. He has been pulled into Ryoko's cold machinations, a plan that could wreck both of their lives. Guilty love gives way to panic and then outright conflict, followed by chaos and confusion,yet the film preserves its sense of humor all along. A common thread of true relationship weaves its way through the story, tying together the tension of the disparate scenes.
- DirectorShirô MaedaStarsAhmad AliKumi HyôdôItsuji ItaoWho does not want to finally see a movie about the Japanese female bomb makers out there? Mikiko (Koizumi, Kyoko) disappeared a long time ago and is considered dead by her family, that is until she walks in through the door and uncomfortably settles back in. Her niece Kako (Nikaido, Fumi) is there and has been bored for some time. Still, she does not necessarily want her aunt as a room-mate. Then there is the rest of the family. They are not so ordinary either.
- DirectorYuki IwataStarsTakayuki YamadaManami KonishiChizuru IkewakiA twenty-nine-year old philanderer slips while skating at a rink and is afflicted with memory loss. The salesman discovers a wedding ring in his briefcase later. He meets three women and each of them declares herself as his girlfriend. He sets up three dates to figure out whom he wants to marry. One works at a pharmaceutical company like he does, one is a tramp and one performs for children.
- DirectorShunichirô MikiStarsKanoko KawaguchiRinko KikuchiRyû MoriokaA giant shopgirl struggles to fit in her store. Mysterious green pods populate bedrooms. Heartbroken woman meets wood nymphs who offer her special fruit. In the end we wonder if it's all a dream.
- DirectorHiroshi IshikawaStarsYuka ItayaHaruka IgawaShôzô EndôSix women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their dreams and hopes as the days perpetually tug on their heartstrings.
- DirectorMakoto TanakaStarsKahoGoriHiroko YakushimaruNanahama High school girl Kasumi is in her school's choir. She loses her confidence and esteem when she is told by a would-be photographer how she resembles a salmon when she is singing. Then she meets high school student and hoodlum leader Hiroshi whose confidence restoring measures are unorthodox, but effective.
- DirectorYoshimitsu MoritaStarsEri FukatsuSeiyô UchinoSei HiraizumiA young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.
- DirectorMasahiko NagasawaStarsKana KurashinaYuta NakanoKanaSakumi was seventeen when she had such a car accident that the next ten years of her life are a blank. She lost any recollection of the ensuing ten years. She would like to regain the memories and that portion of her life and has Yoshihiko to help her. Yoshihiko is an old friend and a class-mate who also has feelings for Sakumi.
- DirectorRiki OkamuraStarsAsae ÔnishiKazuko KatôKaori Torii'1 Litre of Tears' is a Japanese movie mainly based on a published version of Diary.
- DirectorNaoto KumazawaStarsHyominKurumi ShimizuKento YamazakiSouth Korean exchange student Yoon Ji-ho tries to make love bloom between her uptight classmate Kaede and Yusuke, a very shy boy she's infatuated with since middle school.
- DirectorSaiji YakumoStarsTaisuke FujigayaMasataka KubotaMarie IitoyoKira is a sweet young girl with a traumatic past. She meets Rei who made her overcome her inner struggles. However, as much as they wanted to live as close to perfect as a couple can be, Kirishima tries to shake their relationship. Kirishima is a disturbed being who was bullied when he was young, and his outlook on life is what makes him do dark things.
- DirectorHideki TakeuchiStarsHaruka AyaseKentarô SakaguchiAkira EmotoAn assistant director and film fan gets his wish come true when his favourite heroine, a princess from an old film, appears in the real world.
- DirectorAkira OgataStarsHiroo AndôMitsuko BaishôYui HiwatashiKomaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsRyôko FujinoMizuki ItagakiAnna IshiiA group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death; if he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsRyôko FujinoMizuki ItagakiAnna IshiiA group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death; if he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
- DirectorKôjirô HashimotoStarsKeiko HoriuchiMoka KamishiraishiMone KamishiraishiWhen high school student Tomura Naoki met piano tuner Itadori Soichiro at his school in Hokkaido, he could smell the forest from the piano tuned by Soichiro. Touched, the boy decides to work together with Soichiro at his musical instruments store. Naoki develops relationships with many people related to the piano and he meets sister pianists and high school students Kazune and Yuni.
- DirectorAyuko TsukaharaStarsKasumi ArimuraMotoki FukamiHaruIn a specific cafe and chair in Japan, one can travel back in time while drinking a cup of coffee. There are, however, 5 rules/restrictions. It opens for closure and changing one's future but not present.
- DirectorYasuhiro YoshidaStarsKasumi ArimuraJun KunimuraMunetaka AokiAkira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsHana SugisakiMackenyuTakumi KitamuraTwelve kids go into an abandoned hospital to give up on life. In the room where they meet, a boy is already lying dead, and no one knows who he is.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsAi HashimotoMiyuki MatsudaGô RijûThe story of youth. Kakeru, a 15 year old boy, and Mii (Little My) , a female transfer student. They are two lonely teens who cannot find their place in life, but who gradually learn to relate to each other through the power of music.
- DirectorTetsuo ShinoharaStarsMakiko EsumiEtsushi ToyokawaToshio KakeiYu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, decides to help raise him.
- DirectorKenji KatagiriStarsElaiza IkedaKentarô ItôKaoru MitsumuneYakumo Miko's father died when she was 5 years old. The next year, Miko mother went missing. Miko then moved in with her grandmother, but, at the age of 18, Miko's grandmother passes away. She shuts herself away from others. One day, her uncle from her mother's side, Ikazuzi Goro appears. He sets up a place for Miko to live and also a place for her to do part-time work. Her part-time job is "room laundering." After starting her job, Miko sees ghosts. She struggles to solve the worries of the ghosts who are staying in rooms. Ikazuzi Goro tells Miko that her mother was able to see ghosts which affected her. Miko asks him to find her mother.
- DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsRyûhei MatsudaYôjirô NodaHirofumi AraiIn a biopic the audience sees the story of Segawa "Shottan" Shoji who fails to become a professional in shogi by the age of twenty six, which is the age limit according to the rules of the sport. However, not wanting to give up and persisting the man attempts to become a professional at age thirty five. The motivational story of a man going up against the rules and challenging himself despite the system and the establishment is cast with multiple stars of contemporary Japanese cinema.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsNao OkabeAnne OgawaHyunriYuzo, a mosaic engineer for porn videos, lives under the same roof as Mitsuki, a high school student with whom he leads a peculiar life. One day, Yuzo receives a phone call from Mitsuki's sister.
- DirectorShô MiyakeStarsTasuku EmotoShizuka IshibashiTomomitsu AdachiA love triangle that captures all the magic and melancholy of a summer, concentrating on the fleeting moments and encounters experienced by its three protagonists.
- DirectorBi GanStarsTang WeiJue HuangSylvia ChangA man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsSeiji FukushiYûsuke IseyaAoba KawaiThe film centers on Iwao Shishido, who at age forty suddenly leaves his rural village, but returns with a foreign bride during his father's funeral.
- DirectorKitarô KôsakaStarsSeiran KobayashiNana MizukiSatsumi MatsudaAfter losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with her grandmother who runs a traditional Japanese inn. While she prepares to be the next owner of the inn, Okko can somehow see friendly ghosts.
- DirectorEdward YangStarsCora MiaoLi-Chun LeeShih-Chieh KingA metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsSôta FukushiMitsuki TakahataNanaNana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to take care of Nana and begins visiting people who may be good candidates. As Nana and her father take trips in their car Satoru meets old friends, meets new friends and his own story unfurls in the process.
- DirectorJun'ichi IshikawaStarsYui AragakiEita NagayamaRyôko HirosueTamiko used to be a very good ping pong player as a child, but she is now twenty-eight years old and left the sport behind. Her mother Hanako had taught her how to play imposing discipline and regimen, but following the former's death the daughter had felt free by quitting the sport and instead leading an ordinary life. One of her co-workers Akihiko asks her to go steady one day, but soon sleeps with a pretty co-worker called Airi. Having lost her chance with this man she quits her job and returns to her hometown. Here her mother once owned a ping pong club. At the same time, the man she lost has joined the company's ping pong club prompting her to want to beat him. She begins to practice again.
- DirectorKazuhiko YukawaStarsYûki AmamiHiroshi AbeSaki AibuAfter their twenty-something son moves out Yohei, a school teacher, and his wife Miyoko may begin a new phase in their lives. Yohei is taken aback, however, when he comes across divorce papers stashed in the house. rethinking his life he has to plat his next steps with his wife.
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsKazunari NinomiyaHidetoshi NishijimaAoi MiyazakiSasaki-san is a superlative cook who is on auto-control and can make wondrous meals with nary a thought anymore. In a literal case of last wish on earth, he receives a special request to cook a specific dish. The catch is he needs to discover the recipe of famed chef Yamagata who was in occupied Manchuria in China in the 1930s.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsFumi NikaidôRyô YoshizawaAoi MorikawaHigh schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.
- DirectorDaihachi YoshidaStarsRyô NishikidoFumino KimuraKazuki KitamuraSix strangers who move to a coastal town are part of a covert government project to resocialize murder convicts, but their plan goes awry.
- DirectorOsamu SuzukiStarsRyôko HirosueShino InoueRyo NaritaA woman visits a laboratory where they are researching a potion for love. Asuka Okada is a popular pastry chef, yet often loses her job and friends because of love. She visits clinic researcher Reiko who creates a special formula for Asuka to prevent her from falling in love.
- DirectorIsamu NakaeStarsYûya YagiraErika SawajiriMari NatsukiAfter graduating from high school, Shiro is clueless how to proceed with his education. For the moment, he takes a small job at a local gas station, to much displease of his parents. His America-idolizing grandmother however gives Shiro all support, as she believes that "gas stations are a romantic place for wanderers". Grandmother is right about romance, when a girl called Noriko comes to work at the gas station too, after she broke up with her boyfriend. Shiro develops a huge crush on Noriko, and with this bitter-sweet first love, Shiro enters maturity.
- DirectorMasahiro KobayashiStarsFusako UrabeNene ÔtsukaTakayuki KatôYuko volunteered to be an aid worker in Iraq and was taken hostage there. When freed she returned to Japan, but after being home six months she is still the ongoing object of harassment from her own countrymen. A co-worker finds many angry postings on the Internet denouncing her and spreads them very vocally, causing her boss let her go. He tells her that the atmosphere at the hotel where she works as a chambermaid has changed negatively as a result. Several anonymous phones are made daily to her at home where she lives with her father and stepmother, saying that she is an embarrassment and disgrace to Japan. She is even harassed by strangers on the street after buying soup at a local convenience store, ruining her dinner. Her boyfriend dumps her, calling her actions as a volunteer in a foreign country selfish, that she should have stayed in Japan and only helped her own community. Yuko's father supported her decision to go to the Middle East, and he defends her actions after her return, but his company is also receiving threatening phone calls over his daughter's actions. At the loss of her father, she dreams of returning to the only place where she felt her life had meaning, where children greeted her warmly as she gave them Japanese treats. She realizes that staying in Japan might cause her to become as cold as those around her, simply to survive.
- DirectorToshiyuki MoriokaStarsSôsuke IkematsuEri FukatsuFumino KimuraBased on a manga itself, Tokyo Loser is about Natsumi (Kie Kitano) who moves to Tokyo from the countryside to enter an arts' university and become a recognized manga artist. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke (Sosuke Ikematsu) and they are soon a couple except the relationship is cut short owing to the latter's lack of money. Natsumi has to get a job as she struggles with her slipping dreams.
- DirectorToru YamamotoIvaylo BrusowskiStarsIssei TakahashiHaruna KawaguchiMickey CurtisShiori Kitamura just moved to a new apartment. She works at a company. Susumu Hirano lives next door to her. He aspires to become a novelist. One evening, Shiori Kitamura hears a man's voice coming through her wall saying "I am in the future 1 year later." The voices asks to trail Susumu Hirano. She is unable to hear the man's voice anymore. To solve the mystery, Shiori Kitamura begins to follow Susumu Hirano and she gets attracted to him.
- StarsKyôko FukadaKayoko KishimotoSatoshi OhnoFujioka Kouta, a 29-year-old man is suddenly diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called malignant lymphoma. While given 3 months to live, he makes a resolve to accept his fate and face death properly.
- StarsMirei KiritaniKeiko MatsuzakaMitsuhiro OikawaAn overworked 65-year-old woman who is given the chance to re-experience her youth when she's turned 20 again.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsHaruko SugimuraNobuko OtowaHideo KanzeYoko is a famous actress who goes to a mountain chalet for a few days rest. There, she learns a secret from her companion Toyoko.
- DirectorYuki OtsukaStarsKatsuhisa NamaseManami KonishiYuiko KariyaA 50-year-old salaryman named Kenichi Shibuya has been divorced for five years and has an awkward relationship with his daughter Mika. The day before Mika's 15th birthday, he's killed by a bolt of lightning on the side of the road along with one of his superiors from the office, Ayase. In the afterlife, they're told they can be reincarnated if they drink a "legendary soup", but they'll lose all memories from their former life in the process. Refusing to accept the idea of forgetting his daughter, Shibuya instead tries to unravel the secrets of the soup by wandering around the afterlife with Ayase as he attempts to continue his fatherly role from the other side.
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsGô AyanoKanji FurutachiAyumi ItoA flower called Shanidar grows and blossoms on the breasts of specific women. It secretes a substance, which is in high demand as it is used for creating pharmaceuticals. The harvest is profitable and so the women are alternately enchained and monitored or being taken care of and tended to. Amidst the blossoming and profiteering human romance blooms.
- DirectorIl-seon EoStarsPark Shi-hooYoon Eun-hyeKim Ji-minKim Sung-Joon (Park Si-Hoo) worked as a pilot, but after becoming in deaf in his right ear he has worked on the ground. He becomes desperate. Kim Sung-Joon then meets Eun-Hong (Yoon Eun-Hye) on a blind date. Even though he doesn't love her, he gets married to Eun-Hong. After their marriage, Sung-Joon treats Eun-Hong with indifference. Suddenly, Eun-Hong dies. Kim Sung-Joon soon learns for the first time about her real heart and her first love. Holding Eun-Hong's urn, he seeks out her first love.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMiki MizunoMakoto TogashiMegumi KagurazakaA grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.
- DirectorTarô HyûgajiStarsTadanobu AsanoErika OdaChizuru IkewakiWhen a lonely owner of a photography studio is introduced to a woman not much different from himself in mood and temperament a friendship ensues that soon becomes a deeper bond that leads to their committing to one another. Fate, however, has other plans and they are not pleasant ones.
- DirectorYuki IwataStarsNana EikuraMitsuki TanimuraTasuku EmotoThe experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last year leading to graduation.
- DirectorMakoto TanakaStarsSôsuke IkematsuHaruna KawaguchiAtsuko MaedaMinami Kawashima (Atsuko Maeda), a female high school student, unexpectedly becomes the manager of Tokyo's Hodokubo High School baseball team. Soon enough, Minami realizes the team consists of talented players, but chronic underachievers. Minami then stumbles upon Peter Drucker's "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" - a classic book on management techniques. She then starts to implement ideas from the book to manage her baseball team into the Koshien National Championships.
- DirectorKôji ShintokuStarsShô HiranoYûna TairaNana AsakawaNao is normally shy at school. It is a surprise when Taiga propositions her for a date and eventual marriage. Nao means to say 'no,' but says 'yes' instead not knowing how to reject such a proposal. Taiga has always come across a scary and larger-than-life. They should not have judged a book by its cover though.
- DirectorHikaru OkitaStarsManami AraiMansaku IkeuchiYurika KuboIn Akihabara, Sakura Sakuragi (Yurika Kubo) runs cat cafe "Mocha." She listens to her customers' troubles there. The various customers that enter her cafe also take comfort in the cats that reside there.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsKyôko KoizumiTadanobu AsanoKumiko AsôA government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
- DirectorShinji SômaiStarsYuki SaitôTakaaki EnokiKiminori SeraA young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later "freed" by a young man working for the family's company. 10 years later, she gets involved in the murder of one of her step-sisters.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsRyohei SuzukiYoung DaisNana SeinoIn an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro crosses the line to conquer all of Tokyo. The war begins.
- DirectorHideaki AnnoStarsShunji IwaiAyako FujitaniJun MurakamiA disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
- StarsRichard ThomasTim ReidAnnette O'TooleIn 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
- DirectorKôji FukadaStarsDean FujiokaMayu TsurutaTaiga NakanoAn Indonesian town by the sea has been ruined by war and tsunami. A man is found on the coast there by Atsuko and her son Takashi. They are working in disaster recovery. The man speaks poor Japanese and Indonesian. They name him Laut which means sea in Indonesian and protect him. Soon, Rau is connected with many miraculous cases.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsKeiko KitagawaYûdai ChibaRyo NaritaAfter Asami's boyfriend lost his cellphone, she begins to receive unknown credit card payment notification, her social media information is leaked, and she is drawn into an unexpected turmoil. At the same time young women bodies appear in remote mountains and the investigation of serial murder case is about to start.
- DirectorJunpei TsuchidaStarsNarumi AkizukiKokoro AoshimaNina EndôIt is not Tag. It is not Battle Royale. It is Battle Royale Tag. Sena walks up to the school rooftop to return Yudachi's handkerchief. Yudachi is not there and Sena falls asleep waiting. It is dark, she is confined and locked up at her school when Sena wakes up. The school has turned bloody red and the girls have to fight to the death. Who will survive the carnage is up to the girls.
- DirectorShô TsukikawaStarsYurina HirateMizuki ItagakiKeiko KitagawaHibiki is a precocious 15-year-old with a penchant for writing. She enters her novel to literary magazine Mokuren for nomination, but it does not satisfy conditions for their Rookie of the Year award, so it is tossed, until Editor Fumi Hanai discovers it.
- DirectorHayato KawaiStarsMark ChinneryKento NakajimaMarika MatsumotoTwo children of rival gangster families are betrothed to each other to ensure a truce. They dislike each other in the beginning, but over time they start to like each other.
- DirectorTatsushi ÔmoriStarsHaru KurokiMikako TabeKirin KikiNoriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Takeda. Noriko now has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's there for her during moments when she is sad or happy.
- DirectorAkiko ÔkuStarsYui AragakiRyûhei MatsudaRinko KikuchiYui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.
- DirectorHiroshi NishitaniStarsYûji OdaKô ShibasakiYoshiki ArizonoAn ambitious clerk Satoru Nomura is sent to Mantendo, an unsuccessful supermarket where he needs to cooperate with a Ninomiya Aki, a hardworking employee. Due to his arrogant attitude he gets disliked by the staff, including Ninomiya.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsMire AikaMunetaka AokiKazuyuki AsanoSuzuki's world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. Angry, Suzuki finds he has no answer to Ishihara and in venting his anger, loses his daughter's trust too. A sleep-deprived, crazed Suzuki goes to Ishihara's school wielding a knife. He does not find Ishihara, but instead forms an alliance with an odd group of school misfits called the Zombies. The group's elusive leader, Pak Sun Shin, decides to train Suzuki, who quits his job and embarks on a punishing programme to win back freedom for his daughter.
- DirectorYoshimitsu MoritaStarsEtsushi ToyokawaYûki AmamiShuto TanabeJiro is in the 6th grade from a family of five. His father doesn't work and has a quick temper. Jiro gets violent with a student who makes fun of his parents. To get away from the incident and child welfare, the family moves to the father's hometown island. Here they get drawn into the an uproar over development plans for a resort. Mom and dad are arrested, but escape to live as fugitives away from their children. The children understand and support them.
- StarsSachie HaraMisaki ItôKazushige NagashimaFollowing the daily lives and cases of two female police officers in Tokyo's Bokuto Police Precinct, this live-action adaptation captures the bond between partners as they navigate their challenging careers.
- DirectorYoshimitsu MoritaStarsKoyukiTomoka KurotaniShunya IsakaA young woman goes back to her home town and gives bundles of cash to her classmates.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsEri MiyajimaTomoko ÔtakaraMiyuki NakanoSummer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of classmate Yu. Norio blames Kazuhiko for Yu's death, because it was well-known that Yu loved Kazuhiko; so Kazuhiko is cruel to Norio, and yet has bad dreams. This uneasy arrangement is exacerbated by the arrival of Kaoru, a student early for the fall - who looks exactly like Yu.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsAyami NakajôHayato SanoHiroya ShimizuHikaru Tsutsui is a high school student. He enjoys animation and video games in the virtual world, but he doesn't enjoy his real life. People at his school don't even know he exists. One day, he cleans up the pool at his school with beautiful Iroha Ikarashi. Iroha approaches Hikaru and confesses that she likes him.
- DirectorKen IizukaStarsReo SanoNozomi BandôMayu HottaRainbow Days centers on a group of four male high school students who are close friends: Natsuki, Tomoya, Keiichi, and Tsuyoshi. The four boys have no club activities, and they hurry through their studies so they can spend their days having fun. Their main topic of interest: love. Natsuki has an unrequited crush on Anna, a girl from another class, and his friends keep meddling in their relationship.
- DirectorYuki TanadaStarsYû AoiMirai MoriyamaPierre TakiA 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
- CreatorMotoka MurakamiStarsMiki NakataniWayne LeGetteTakao OsawaA brain surgeon named Minakata Jin faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period.
- DirectorHaruo InoueStarsYûna TairaKaren OhtomoHidetoshi HoshidaAki transferred from Tokyo to a school on a rural island. Tamako was born and raised on the island. Now, they attend the same middle school. Aki was a member of the soft tennis club back in Tokyo, but an incident caused her to leave behind her mother and older sister and move in with her father Masaya on the island. Tamako asks Aki to teach her soft tennis. This inspires Akito pick up her racket once again. Unfortunately, the area doesn't have a tennis court. Aki and Tamako try to make a court on the campus of a shutdown school.
- StarsSuzu HiroseRyunosuke KamikiAnna IshibashiHigh-school student Haruna Tsubame becomes the student council president after being persuaded by her peers. With the help of a talented speechwriter, she aims to transform her school using the power of words.
- CreatorJunko KawakamiStarsKasumi ArimuraKoshi MizukamiKeita MachidaEmotions resurface when a school teacher and her former student reconnect three years after sharing a forbidden attraction that scarred them both.
- StarsReina TriendlEri TokunagaKanna MoriyaMariko (Reina Triendl) cares about eating breakfast a lot due to her mother's influence. Mariko and her boyfriend have lived together for 7 years, but they haven't had breakfast together very often. Even though Mariko began living with her boyfriend, imagining eating breakfast together and smiling. One day, Mariko has breakfast with Noriko (Kanna Moriya), Risa (Yuko Araki) and Shiori (Eri Tokunaga). They are all friends from their high school days. While having breakfast together, Mariko decides to breakup with her boyfriend and to find her new self. The women also decide to have breakfast together regularly.
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsTom HardyKelly AdamsLuing AndrewsA young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanScarlett JohanssonTom HanksFollowing a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.